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The guy on the other end of the phone was whining, and obviously envious.
He told he me was sick of all the football bowl games this time of year.
I responded by saying I was going to the Boca Bowl.
"What's that?"
"The Boca Bowl. Northern Illinois...

When Cortney Lester graduated from Everglades High, his mother got him a travel bag for a present.She made it clear. He wasn't staying at home to play college football. Lester, now a junior, is one of six Broward and Palm Beach County players who have...

Bowl season is upon us giving everyone a few more weeks to enjoy the gift that is college football. Wrapped inside that gift is knowing there are quite a few Broward and Palm Beach County football players will be gracing our TV screens. Broward and Palm...

The long holiday weekend starts now.Today's noon Music City Bowl (Wisconsin-Auburn) kicks off a five-day, 20-game football feast. Fifteen bowl games, a high school all-star game (Saturday's All-American Bowl on NBC) and the first four NFL playoff games.At...

Carol Monroe's office at the Florida Citrus Bowl looked like a department store. In one corner, 18-inch Shamu dolls from Sea World were diving out of a box and onto the floor, next to a tower of boxed-up camcorders, which were competing for space with a...

David Carr gave the Western Athletic Conference national attention when he starred for Fresno State two years ago. Carr went on to become the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft.Ryan Dinwiddie is the WAC quarterback in the spotlight now.Dinwiddie led Boise...

The FedEx Orange Bowl Committee has approached the Atlantic Coast Conference about the possibility of a secondary bowl game to be played in South Florida, sources said.The game, probably beginning in December 2005, would be played before Christmas or in...

It's halftime: 14 bowls down, 14 to go.And the big glut is today and Wednesday.Jan. 1 has always been the pinnacle of the postseason, and there are six games Wednesday. But New Year's Eve is loaded too with its own six-pack today, starting with the...

There are 28 college football bowl games, enabling almost half the 117 Division I-A schools to say they played in the postseason. But the games weren't created to reward hard-working student-athletes and coaches or to please the schools' fans.It's all...

If you have a letter of credit proving to the NCAA you can rent a 50,000-seat stadium and pay two teams at least $750,000 apiece, then you can run a bowl game. There are no limits to the sponsors, the location or the participants. And that there already...

University of Miami starting All-America tackle Bryant McKinnie and defensive starters William Joseph and Chris Campbell underwent knee surgery Monday but are expected to play in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 3.McKinnie sprained his left knee in Saturday's...

New year, new century, same Jan. 1 football gluttony.We -- meaning me -- consumed roughly 13 hours of pigskin and a half-pound of pork barbecue while sitting in a recliner watching six bowl games Monday. We chronicled most of it.Conditions weren't...

So this is the kind of reward the University of Miami football program has to settle for these days.A week in Jacksonville. New Year's Eve in Ponte Vedra. The Gator Bowl. Just another one of college football's nondescript bowl games that could matter to...

The system works. That's what we keep hearing about the Bowl Championship Series, now that No. 1 Florida State and No. 2 Virginia Tech will meet in the national championship Sugar Bowl on Tuesday."This system is about as good as we can get right now,"...

Bobby Bowden may never be mistaken for Bill Gates, but he knows a good computer printout when he sees one. Florida State's coach liked what he saw Sunday, as did almost everybody else in college football."Evidently," Bowden said, "it came out exactly as...

Southern Cal tries to break UCLA's eight-game winning streak, longest in series history.South Carolina (0-10) needs to beat Clemson (5-5) to avoid its first winless season since 1892. The Tigers need a sixth win to qualify for a bowl.Oregon State (7-3)...

Notre Dame rejected the Big Ten and remained one of the last independents. There are only seven. Arkansas State left for the Big West and Alabama-Birmingham bolted for Conference USA. Middle Tennessee State moves over from Division I-AA.The Fighting Irish...